The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, November 16, 1899, Page 9

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OFFICE %13 FOLSOM ST, NTAL . . | | PP R R * P AY & WRIGHT have the t ¢ P+ 0P epe redit to Diosc e e ebeee PG v L 4 the as soon eir quarters as ed. was a general shift a .{ o Fol- Ohto at Vostock moved from Har ard 3. | . There was trouble on the transport Warren yesterday. A gang of abou jal | | M. Ausherman, A. G xty boys and 3 Warren They will be fir ed Company’s mail ed for Honolulu cighty cabin pas- y-six the steerage. ning hours & Scow siderable trouble for chinery was belng 2 over sailing and 1 was going . The scow, out from the slip, allowed her line to drift down to the and it was caught in the re- volv el. The engines before any demage was done, but it took a div carly an hour to cut the rope out of the propeller. Once that was ac- complishad the engines were started again and everythiug found to work to erfection. Pl cabin passengers who went aw E. The ay u Te Axel Aalberg, B. o maiman .G, Ballentyne, Charles Bell and wife, 3, H. Beil, Mrs. 1. Brown, o children and maid, B. K. Bull, Miss C. Carison, H. Cohn, F. J. Cross, Mra. J. T. de Bolt, Rev. 8 Desha, W. e Dixo and ‘wife and Major J. A. M uller, A. . Miss pper, n, He Kamauwa! : . M Miss J. E. ¥ Young and A. Zuckerman. : Pearl arrived from Caps age of th day after a pass Her crew 1s ors, who did fairly h T e beach on th thems aln w wel one of th to take him back to Nome spring. They say it is a poor iggings and ls all right in the Fpring ard summer, but & man 18 taking great chances to stay there over winter. The bark Impire got in from Seattle after a very long passage of She had to beat her getting 1 h last night twenty-four days offshore in a work to get back A breeze from the last would brine a sels into port be- rd ners yesterday accepted of John L. Dickson as wharfinger at Section 1 of the seawall and appointed A. C. MeGauney 1 his pl ADVERTISEMENTS. Nearly fifty years of constant and painstaking endeavor has characterized the out-put of John Wie- land’s Brewery. In the beginning as now there was no better. To-day it stands the largest, richest and best equipped in modern and scientific apEaratus for makinga pure, wholesome beverage for family use. Wielands Extra Pale is the «“Pasturized,” bottled product of that high stan- dard. Quars, pints, hait-pnts. Your grocer or telephone West 144, California Bottiing Co. o717 Eddy RUPTURE & TERFIELD, ket st . UNFIT FOR THE t | n right, is for hter of Dr. H. H. Davis, R e AR PESTHOUSE 1§ S e | (Y LEPERS Health Board to Ask| for Improvements. MALLPOX CASE HEINTZ WOULD CLOSE UP THE RECEIVING HOSPITAL. ONE MORE S vards in Oakland Creek one of the prettiest little steamers that has Wiider Steamship Company of Honol ptaln W. A. Johnson > is 152 feet long, 29 feet 6 In . and are expected to drive the vessel 13 knots an hour. be a favorite with the traveling public of Hawali. s | At the regular meoting of the Board of Coffey referred to Health last night Dr. the demlorable in which the nineteen leprous wards ¢ the city are confined, and requested the | board to take some immediate action t. better their conditfon. He sald that the new build‘ng provided for them lacked | hot water and cooking facilities, and that | they preferred remaining in the fiithy, | | weather-beaten quarters they now occupy | to going wlere they cannot get those ne- | cessities. He was heartily seconded by | Dr. Payne and Dr. Barbat, and a res»- lution was adopted which provided that the Poard of Health should go before the Board of Stpervisors as a committes of the whole and make urgent request for the needed improvements. On motion of Dr. Coffey, the salaries of the steward and nurse at the Pesthouse were ralscd from $4) t.. §7 per month. Health Officer Lawlor took advancage of the cpjoertu to announce that other case of smalipox had been disco ered ecatller in the evening, and that the | patient, Frank Rice, was confined ‘n los | room at tha Golden Eag'e Hotel at Mont- | gomery street and Broadway. Rice ar- rived ortiand by steamer (hree nd has been i1l at his no*al thal time. wus not discovered until yesterdays. of the board he will be taken io use this morning. owing letter from Dr. Heintz was referred to the Board of Supervis- | | ors: 1 esire to call yor of the supplies Recelving M. ur attention to the matter *h are belng furnished the | this respect subm Kreatly handi- by the want of even | most ordinary materials used he treat ment of cases In the hospital and in perform- | € operations. We have suffered in this re- spect to such an extent that the patients have not recelved as successful treatment as they | should, and certainly not_as beneficlal as we | could have given them. The bills of the var- fous houses which have aiready supplied our hospital with materials have been delayed in yment to such an extent that our credit | Iy injured and we are not able to secure r suppiles. Unless this matter s reme- died o that we are able to do curselves and | the patients brought befors us justice I shall recommend that the Receiving H be closed, as in that event the various cases re- | quiring treatment will probably be taken care of in some other institution. ¢ & ¢ 1. P. B HBINTD. The financial statement for October showed a total of expenditures amount- ing to $13,533 33, | “The report of Dr. Hodghead, superin- tendent of the ity and County’ Hospital did not present the rosiest condition of affairs at that institution. During the past month and the late shortage in| sheets, plllowcases and sterfiized towels were used in the place of bandages.and absorbent cotton, and the food suppl was %0 cut down that in Dr. Hodghead's | opinlon many lives were shortened. The resignation of George Lilly, an ambulance driver at the Harbor Hosphal, was accented. The resignation of B. Roach, an interne at the Harbor Hospi- Iso accepted. r. Payne offered a resolution provid- ing for ihe immediate opening of the school for trained nurses at the City and | Co Hospital in order that as soon as possible the present nurses may be displaced by nurses properly tralned. The resolution was adopted. Army Chaplain to Lecture. Next Tuesday evening the Rev. W. D. McKinnon, chaplain of the regular army, who has lately returned from a visit to | Washington, will lecture at the Metropoll- | tan Temple on “The Stars and S(rl‘p--s in the Philippines.” While in Washington | ther McKinnon was granted several in- terviews with President = McKinley and members of the Cabinet, and is expected | to disclose in his address the probable | olicy that is to be pursued toward the “ilipinos. The lecturer will also speak of church looting and the charges made against various officers, ————— Mayor Phelan’s Lecture. The first of a series of free lectures was delivered last night by Mayor Phelan at the Good Samaritan Misston, 246 Second street. A good-sized audience was pres- ent to hear the Mayor speak on the sub- ject, “Civic Government,” and apprecla- tion” was testified by frequent applause. The speaker was introduced by Rev. W. KIp. who is in charge of the mission, he Mayor's remarks were directed prinelpaliy to the good results which would be ‘effected under the new charter, which he claimed would eradicate all the evils under which the community labored whenesnwrne«l by the consolidation act. Ho predicted that when the charter was in full OY"M’“" this city would rank with Paris in its manifold beauties. —————— A Shakespearean Play. Under the leadership of Leo Cooper, the Gentlemen's Sodality Dramatic Club, which comrrllel vg;‘;unu of the Jesuit College, will on esday evening, No- vember 29, at College Ha %u\ Ness ave- nue, present Shakespeare’s famous drama “Hepry IV.” Their annual entertainment . ® lu, and when launched ysician of Sonoma. Wilder Steamship Com- nd feet deep. Her The Katulani a prominent n of the hes beam B i R R S AR S R SRS SO el ebe i ere b ebeieie@ has always been a success in the past, and this s not likely to be an excep- tion, E e gentlemen tak of tickets is large and ing pa re well known glven CORPORATIONS WILL FIGHT THE BOND TAX Those local corporations which have large bunches of bonds among thelr as- | sets and Nabiiities have finally arranged their differences with Tax Collector Shee- han. They will pay what they consider they are due to pay In the way of taxes, but the q tion of taxation of bonds g to carry into court. ations cared before the alization and protested that nds was double taxs application to have § cut off. The board re- Xt appeared before the 1 oflered to pay the t If the Treasurer e bond payments under a special fund un! be had. The Ti to any such prop of the different c. lined to listen oncerns held a meeting nd decided to pay such taxes as th i isidered legal and give the Tax C lector indemnity bonds to secure the bal- ance until the courts should decide either for or agauinst them. This proposition was put before both Sheehan and Truman and both accepted; the corporation taxes will consequently be paid upon that basis. The companies concerned in the agree- ment were all of the banks and the Mar- ket Street Railway Compan TWO COUPLES MAN AND WIFE | Hecht - Weil and Bridg- man - Heyneman Nup- tials Celebrated. One of the prettiest weddings of the season took place at noon yesterday, when Irvin J. Well and Miss Elsie Sara Hecht were united at the home of the bride’s mother, Jackson and Octavia streets. From seventy-five to a hundred friends of the family witnessed the tielng | of the knot by the Rev. Dr, Voorsanger, the bride being given away by her broth- er, Bert R. Hecht. Her cousin, Miss Edith Hecht, acted as maid of honor, while her niece, Miss Dorothy Kathryn Fries, was bridesmaid. The best man ‘was Eli Well, brother of the groom. T! bride, who is extremely beautiful, is one of the most popular members of the younger set, in which she made her debut about two yvears ago. As a member of the law firm f McNutt & Well the groom is recog- nized as one of the most prominent legal lights of this city. An elaborate break- fast followed the ceremony, and soft, rose-colored Incandescents shone on the festive scene through masses of tawny chrysanthemums. An orchestra, concealed in a bower of living green, lent the charm of music to the occasion, and after the a t the bride o Al Ganc s I E L e | e kot s it o6 clingt Cnil- | formal dance was indulged in. The young couple will spend their hnnef'mnnn at Monterey and will make thelr home at the Hotel Grenada. Rey. W. Maxwell Rellly, rector of St. 's Episcopal Church, married at 10 vesterday morning Miss Florence Eridgman and Otto H. Heyneman. The church was beautifully decorated with white chrysanthemums by the ladies of St. Paul's Chancel Chapter. The wed- ding was a very quiet one, only the Inti. mate friends of the two familles being present. The bride, garbed in a plain gray traveling gown, was given away by her brother, Robert Bridgman. Miss Bridg- man was one of the first sopranos of St, Paul's and is exceedingly popular In church and soclety circles. Mr. Heyne- man is the secretary of Chief Lees and is well known In political circles. During tha ceremony appropriate music was rendered by C. Tilton, organist of the church. Im- mediately afterward the bridal party left for the home of the bride in Sausalito, where @ reccption was held, the young couple leaving later for a tour th the southern part of the State, future return they will reside on Californta street. —_————— By Appointment. Make your pointment with your friend at Zinkand's mr‘l‘t . —_— e Chinese Crushed to Death. Ning Ah Hee, a Chinese employed in the Pacific Canning Company’s establishment on Stockton and Sacramento streets, and who was crused In an elevator last Mon- day afternoon, died from the effects of his injurfes !ast evening. The injured man had a fractured leg and skull and was at- tepded by a Chinese physician in nis lodgings, at the corner of Ross alley and Washington street. The hody moved to the Morgue by Deputies La- combe and Flanagan. nch decision could | Then the agents | rough | On their | was re- NOVEMBER 16, 1899. CO0wO000000000000000C00000C00C0000C OUR SOLDIER IN CAMPS AND ON TRANSPORTS. OOOOOOOG00000000000000OOOOO00000O0000000000000OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO0000OOOOOOOOOOOCOOOOOOOOO | @*ieietedetodoideded WMMMH*-@*-H-QW.; 0000 © NEVADA'S TROOP OF CAVALRY IS NOW NO MORE Mustered Out at the Presidio. e o A PRIVATE KILLED BY FALLING FROM A HORSE. e The Nevada cavalrymen were mustered out yesterday. There were forty-eight of them. Each trooper received four months' pay, besides balances on cloth- ing allowances and travel pay, and alto. gether there was nearly $100 for every man. The troop will go home Friday evening In a speclal car attached to the overland. They will be met at the State line by Governor Sadler and a delegation of citi- zens, and when they reach Carson City they will be royally welcomed. The Forty-fifth Infantry left camp yes- terday and marched away to the trans- port dock. Its place In camp will be taken by the Forty-ninth when it ar- i . Which will be within a day or two, and that will bring the two colored regi- ments side by side in a_camp just large enough to hold them both. Andrew J. Borden, a private in Com- Lr:my B of the Forty-sixth Infantry, was iiled by being thrown from a horse Tues- day night. He was one of a detachment left behind by ‘the Forty-sixth to look | out for its bagkage until it could be taken | down to the transport, which accounts for | his presence at the P: lo after his regi- [nwnl had left. He stru on his head and when he was taken to the hospital it was found that his skull had been fractured, He never regained consclousness and died about four hours after the accident. John W. Daley and Curtis C. Isley, dis- charged men from Company D of the Thirty-fourth Infantry, are trying to have their case reviewed by some authority that will put them back Into the army nd wipe out the disgrace of their dis- issal, for they were discharged without honor, The men were accused by a photogra- pher of stealing and then hr(-n?klng‘;lu camera. He complained first to the col- onel of the regiment, who put them un- der arrest, and then to the police, two policemen were sent out to the Pre- fidio and the men were taken to jail. The case was dismissed in the Police Court, but notwithstanding the colonel of the Thirty-fourth asked that the men be discharged without honor, they being in the hands of the civil authorities, and this ‘was done in an order from army headquarters. The men say the photographer left his camera in one of the company streets and then members of the company gatnered around and took pictures of one another in his absence. They say there was no malice in their action, and they did not think the photographer had any right to | take pictures in the camp anyway. The discharge without honor deprives them of their travel pay, and they are here in the city without money or friends. They claim the discharge was issued under a misapprehension, as they were not in the | bands of the civil authorities any longer | than was necessary for the Judge to <f|-< miss the against them. say, too, that no discharge of that kind 1 be lssued except after sentence of court-martial, and none was ever called to try their case. They are asking that they be allowed to go back to their regi- ment and that they be sent out to the Pmll‘rplnen. 50 they may join their com- mand in the field. The trouble occurred on September 10, a short time before the Thirty-fourth sailed for Manila. Second Lieutenant James F. McKinley, Sixth Cavalry, has been ordered to Pro- ceed to Manila on the transport Duke of Fife. "Ron his arrival he will report to | General Young for duty upon his staff. Captain John L. Kn(l'ifllm. Forty-fourth Infantry, has been ordered to appear be- | fore thé examining board to prove his fit- | ness to retain his commission. Chaplain Leslie R. Groves has been or- dered to proceed to Manila on the trans,. port Warren. Acting Assistant Surgeon O. C. Helsie, having reported for the annullment of | his contract, has been ordered to proceed | to Nebraska City, Nebr., where his con- | tract was nriflnnhy made. Captain Willlam "C. Bennett, Sixteenth | Infantry, has been assigned to duty on ‘.!hla St. Paul as quartermaster and com- | missary, | Becond Tleutenant Emery 8. West, Eleventh Cavalry, has been ordered to the | ml\llos she will take with her on her next | trip. | lphnplnlr‘ Cephas C. Bateman hs? | assigned to duty with the Forty-i Volunteer Infantry. He will accompany the command to Mantla. Leave of absence for one month has been granted to First Lieutenant Howard K. Bane. Thirty-ninth Infantry. ders of the Tennessee Regiment, died last | Tuesday. She was stricken with apo- plexy last Sunday and never regained con- sclousness. Private James Quinn, Company B, | Twenty-fifth Infantry, n sen- be dishonorably distharged tenced to from the service, to forfeit all pay and allowances due him and to spend a year in confinement at hard labor. He was convicted of drunkenness, disorderly con. | duet, attempting to strike a corporal of | the guard and of using vile and abusive language. George Edelman of the same company has been sentenced to the same penalt with the exception of six months’ co: finement instead of a year. He was con- victed of larceny. | | | | Madame Bishop’s Concert. Mme. Genevra Johnstone-Bishop, the celebrated dramatic soprano, will glve a | grand concert at Sherman & Clay Hall to- night, assisted by Bernhard Mollenhauer, Mrs. Edith Johnston Batchelder and the | Philharmonic orchestra, under the leader- ship of James Hamilton Howe. Madame Bishop Is essed of an exceptionally brilliant voice, and lays claim to being the greatest_oratorio. singer in the United | States. Tt is said of her that she has re- ceived the largest salary ever pald a cholr singer. Botkin Bills Paid. The trial of Mrs. Cordella Botkin fo» the murder of Mrs. John P. Dunning has so far cost the city and county $10,011. Auditor Wells audited the last of the bills yesterday—a claim of $142050 for tran: cript fees—and sald he was glad the mat- ter was off his hands. & enormous amount expended went largely for the transportation of the Delaware witnesses back and forth across the continent and for shorthand reporters’ fees. DIED BESIDE THE GRAVE THAT HE HAD JUST MADE grave wkich contained the remalns noon. Three persons witnessed this place. Cornelius Burns, chief grave-digger at the OA4d Fellows' Cemetery, dropped dead just after he had filled in the lust shovelful of earth in the They were Thomas Delehanty, Henry Eagan and George Davis. For over thirty years Burns has been chief knight of the spade in the Y of Plerre Ludeoud yesterday after- singular death in its more singular FOUR MONTHS’ PAY TO EACH and | Wyetield to take charge of the detach- | ment that will accompany the horses and | been | ourth | cemetery. . He has been a hard worker, and about two years ago was seized with an apoplectic stroke, from which he partially recovered. Yesterday morning he assisted in Aigging the grave of Plerre Ludeoud In plat 331 of the cemetery, and while the funeral cortege was bearing the mourners homeward after depositing the remains In the earth he commenced the task of fliling in the grave. He did not complain of exhaustion while at work, but Just as he tossed the last shovelful of earth on the newly made mound tot- tered and fell dead. ° Burns came to his death, it is supposed, from apoplexy. He was n) years of age and has a famlly residing on Boyce street, between Point Lobos avenue and St. Rose street. —0—0—-0—0—0-0-6-0-0-0-0-0—-0—-0-0 POPULAR STUDIES Contributors to this course: Dr. Edward Scudder and others. IV. KING LEAR. (Concluded.) Selected Critical Studies. The story of Gloucester his sons 1s a counterpart to that of Lear and his daughters. Gloucester is credulous and | superstitious, and for breadth and | grandeur of character Is not to be com- | pared to Lear; but he ranges himself on | | the side of mercy and justice, and his treatment of Lear's treatment of Cordelia. his repentance when he is u sincere, and, like him, his piated with his life und’s entangle- ana | r has more excuse than Like Lear, | ments with Goneril n furnish the link which binds storfes to- | gether. 'Thoroughly committed to both | of them, thelr cause becomes his, and it | 1s mainly to his energy that the victory | of the British forces s due. It is owing | to the discovery of.Goneril's letter to rim | that his villainles are finally unmasked, {not the least of which was his order | for the execution of Cordelia—an order | whichadeathbed repentance revokes when |1t 1s too late. The part played by Edgar | also has its relation to the main plot; | his assumed madness, seconded by the witticlsms of the fool, renders the real madness of Lear less terrible, and it 1s SAMU PHELPS, tween 1544 and 1862 competent plays save “Troflus and Cre: —Sidney Lee. represe da’ and W. Mable, Dr. Albert S, Cook, Dr. Hiram Corson, Dr. The most notable tribute paid to Shakespeare by any actor-manager of recent times was paid by Samuel Phelps, | who gave during his tenure of Sadler's Wells Theater be- ES OF KING LEAR. Copyright, 1899, by Seymour Eaton. IN SHAKESPEARE., Dowden, Dr. Willlam J. Rolfe, Dr. Hamilton Issac N. Demmon, Dr. Vida D. fect. And the words spoken by one of the knights, “Since my young lady's go- ing Into France, sir. the fool hath much pined away,” atone for all his sharp speeches to Lear. Among Shakespeare's other master strokes in this play must be reckoned that of exalting the traditional clown, the buffoon, Into so high a sphere that he becomes a tragic element of the first order.—George Brandes. That this old man should lose his youngest daughter—this is the catastro- phe which Shakespeare has made so great that it is with reason Kent asks: “Is this the promised end? Is this the end of the world?” In the loss of this daughter he [oses all; and the abyss that opens seem: wide enough and deep enough to engulf a world. ss of a Cordelia—that is the great . We all lose, or live under A of losing, our Cordelia. The dearest and best, of that ne makes life worth living—that t tragedy of life. Hence the question: this the V. 'nd of the world? Yes, It Each of us has only his world, and liv with the thr of 'its destruction hnr'x- ing over h And In the year 1606 Shakespeare was In no mood to_write other than dramas on the doom of other worlds.—George Brandes. The elements of greatness in Lear's character are not apparent when we first gee him in the open- ling of the play. His defects ar only too patent. He s a man who has by hav- capricious impatient_ of contradiction. balance of steadiness of judg- ment and Insight into the character of others, which he might have ac- quired in an inferfor position, he was ut- terly destitute of. In order to justify an unequal division of his kingdom, which would have given the largest share to his favorite daugh- ter, he resorted to the ridiculous arti- ice of challenging their expressions o affection, only to meet with the dis- appointment which he weil deserved; then in a single in- stant his love Is changed to hate, and in a blind fit of fury he banishes from his sight the only child who real- loved him, and with whom he might have passed the remainder of his days in peace. It is on this capl- tal mistake—this act of fatal blindness— that the tragic is- ntations of all the “Titus Andronicus.” sues of the play de- Not till he Is ‘ through his instrumentality that tne final catastrophe 18 brought about.—Her- bert A. Evans. Lear Is the greatest sufferer in Shakes- peare's plays; though so old, he has | strength which makes him a subject for | prolonged and vast agony, and patience | is unknown to him. The elements seem to have conspired against him with his | unnatural daughter: moral world and the rage of tempest in the alr seem to be parts of the same | gigantic convuision. In the midst of this | tempest wanders, unhoused, the white- ! naired Lear, while his fool—most pathetic | |of all the minor characters of Shakes- | peare—fests half wildly, half coherently, half bitterly, half tenderly, and always with a sad remembrance of the happler past. The poor boy's heart has been sore ever since his “young mistress went to | France.”—Edward Dowden. In “Othello” the tragedy turns upon the rending of the bonds between and wife. In “King Lear” the tragedy Is that of violated fillal tles, and of father saved—and scarcely saved—from the de- spalr following upon unnatural crueity by the redeeming passion of love in one daughter’s heart. The scale on which everything is presented in this drama borders on the titanic. The aouble plot heightens and Intensifies the effect. Gloucester's wrong and Gloucester's suffering are great, but they fall well | within the limits of humanity. The pas- sions of Lear almost break the bound | there is in them something vast and el mental, and nature herself, with her deluging streams and flerce thrusts of | lghtning and reverberating thunders, | seems to partake in and to reflect the chaos of the moral world. Where hatred, decelt and egolsm are outrageous love s deep and still, a pure and quiet fount of blessing; Cordelia utters no passionate outery, but all that is of virtuous power |in the play organizes itself about her, or | unconsciously takes part with her. She dies as the martyr of love, but when her father falls upon her body and his strong, worn heart at last breaks through excess of strain, he {8 looking for that unuttered word of love from her lips, the very ex- pectation of which has saved him from | despair and moral death. Cordella dies, | but love is not defeated.—Edward Dow- | den. “King Lear” 1Is the greatest task Shakespeare ever set himself, the most extensive and the most imposing—all the | suffering and horror that can arise fron the relation between a father and his children, expressed in five acts of mod- erate length. No modern mind has dared to face such a subject; nor could any one have grap- pled with it. Shakespeare did so without éven a trace of effort, by virtue of the overpowering mastery which he now, in the meridian of his genius, had attained over the whole of human life. He handles his theme with the easy vigor that be- longs to spiritual health, though we have here scene upon scene of such intense pathos that we seem to hear the sobs of suffering humanity accompanying the ac- tion, much as one hears by the seashore the steady plash and sob of the waves. Under what conditions did Shakespears take hold of this subject? The drama tells plainly enough. He stood at the turning point of human life; he had lived about forty-two years; ten years of life still lay before him, but of these certainly | not more than seven were intellectually productive. He now brought that which makes life worse than fienh face to face ‘with that which makes life worth lfving— the very breath of our lungs and Cor- delia-like solace of our suffering—and swept them both forward to a catastrophe that appals us like the ruin of a world.— George Brandes. ‘The fool, the best of Shakespeare's fools, made more conspicuous by coming after the insignificant clown in “Othello,” is such an echo—mordantly witty, marvel- ously Ingenious. He is the protest of sound common sense against the foolishness of which Lear has been gulity, but a pro- test that is pure humor. He never com- plains, least of all on his own account. Yet all his foolery produces a tragic ef- the upheaval of the | husband | with Lear; we can then understand the devotion with which he inspired the faith- ful Kent.—Herbert A. Evans. Questions for Research and Review. 1. Is It Lear's sin against Cordella and he first scene) or his folly In dividing the kingdom and pulllng power | in bad hands that creates the basis of the tragedy? Is Cordelia at all blamable Lear's mental 87 At what | in the first scene? What condition as the play open: g really go mad What parallelism is there between the racters of the main plot—(1) Lear, (2) delia and Kent, (3) Goneril and Regan those of the secondary plot—(l) (2) Edgar, (3) Edmund? How their dramatic functions compare, or trast, pair for pair? Which characters of the play have a | part in both maln and secondary plot, | serving to weave the two together? In | what scenes is this accomplished? | . & What is gained for the advancement of the plot by Introducing Gloucester into the scene at the hovel after Ei Lear have been brought together 5. The visit to Gloucester's castle brings what elements of the play together? De- termines what lssues? Leads to what new ventures? 6. Has Edmund’'s villain’ mund a Richard I \gar and any excuse? on a smaller ? As an intriguer, how does he mea- sure with Jago? 7. How much of the play Is devoted to bringing about the destruction of Ed- mund? By what means in the case of Goneril, Regan and Edmund 1s evil shown to work its own ruin? 8. What mitigates the horror of the #cene in which Gloucester is biinded? 9. Are the crimes of Goneril and Regan monstrous beyond belief? 10. What is the function of the fool in this play? Merely to afford relief from so much horror? Should we understand Lear as well without him? Should we ap- reclate the three daughters as well? rmu Lear or the rest learn anything from him? 1Is he young or old? 11. How are natural phenomena em- ployed In this play? 12. Is Cordella’'s influence feit between her departure for France and her return? 13. What do_you think of Coleridge's opinion that “‘Kent is perhaps the nearest to perfect goodness in all Shakespearc's characters?” 14 Do the moral issues involved in this tragedy come as near to men's hearts and bosoms as those Involved in the tragedy of “Othello”? Do they affect as many people. J,ZAW:.’. Ohio State University. Note — A special paper entitled “SBhakespeare as a Tragic Poet,” by Dr. Demmon, will be published on Monday. COURSES OF INSTRUCTION. Anhunn-Wln—urTnn, 1809-1900. MONDAYS and THURSDAYS: Popular Studies in Shakespeare. TUESDAYS: The World’s Great Artists. WEDNESDAYS: Desk Studies for Girls and Shop and Trade Studies for Boys. FRIDAYS: Great American States- men. SATURDAYS: Home Science and Household Economy. These courses will continue until February 15, 1900. Examinations will be held at their close as a basis for the granting of certificates. A— TRANSPORT COLUMBIA ARRIVES Has an Uneventful Trip From Manila and Brings Eight Government Clerks. The United States army tra 0= lumbia arrived in port fast nizht from Manila via Nagasakl. Eight Government employes constituted the entire passenger list, no sick or discharged soldiers being aboard. The transport was twenty-elght days and eight hours from Manila and nineteen days sixteen hours from the Japanese port. No rough weather was encountered during the entire voyage, and beyond a little seasickness all the fle at ruing. nsport Co pas- ngers e health wh The Colum I'dock this morning.